Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects
Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects
We have now finished the list of honorable ordinaries and subordinaries, but besides these decorations of the shield there is a vast…
Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects: England
The English have a shield on which three eagles are shown, and, although the origin of these eagles is not the object of this story, the…
Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects: Beatrice
Many centuries ago lived Beatrice, the only daughter of the Duke of Cleves, at her castle of Nymwegen, on the Rhine. It was one morning…
Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects: Dauphin
He was adopted as a device by the young Dauphin of France who afterwards became Charles V. of France. If you will look upon a map of…
Other Decorations, Taken from Living Objects: Douglas
The body of man himself was not excused from the covetous fingers of the heraldic painter. The Heart of Bruce appears again and again on…